Inhabited by Grace

What does it mean to inhabit the life of liturgy? What does it mean to be inhabited by Christ? This book offers a way to rethink what we do when we pray, so that we do not so much call on God for help but join in a conversation.
Readers will learn how to think about God through certain habits and practices: how posture effects our perceptions of God and Christ, how feasting on Christ in the Eucharist shapes our understanding of the body-both our individual bodies and the body of the Church. The author also offers tools for forming a deliberate rule of life to ground readers in the transcendent life of liturgy.

Readers will recognize the inseparability of the tables of their homes and the Eucharistic Table, relating daily life with Eucharistic life. Dr. Daniel connects the language of the Book of Common Prayer with the everyday realities of ordinary life, compelling the worshiper to discern how daily practices correspond with or fight against her participation in the Eucharistic economy.

Auteur

WILLIAM DANIEL serves as rector at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in Geneseo, New York. He is an adjunct professor ofHumanities at SUNY Geneseo, and serves as a coordinator for seminary formation and District Dean in the Diocese of Rochester. He completed his doctorate at the University of Nottingham after earning degrees from Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Duke University Divinity School, and Trevecca Nazarene University. Father Daniel lives with his family in Geneseo.

Contenu

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction What is Liturgy?

Part I Spoken into Being: "When you pray..."
Chapter 1 Surprised by Prayer
Chapter 2 Mirror, Mirror
Chapter 3 The Resistless Energy of Love
Chapter 4 Inhabited by Prayer
Chapter 5 Prayerful Humility
Chapter 6 Conclusion

Part II Moved by the Spirit: "You are marked as Christ's own..."
Chapter 7 The Architecture of Prayer
Chapter 8 Habitats of Grace
Chapter 9 The Lamp of the Body
Chapter 10 Apprehending God in My Body
Chapter 11 Grammar that Glorifies
Chapter 12 The Timeless Way of Being
Chapter 13 Conclusion

Part III The Peace of Christ: "And with thy spirit."
Chapter 14 The Gift of Suffering
Chapter 15 Suffering and Forgiveness
Chapter 16 Before Offering Your Gift
Chapter 17 Trust into Trusting
Chapter 18 Marking Love Recognizable
Chapter 19 Conclusion

Part IV The Heavenly Banquet: "This is my body."
Chapter 20 Turn Toward Christ
Chapter 21 The "Amen!" Heard 'Round the World
Chapter 22 Bread from Heaven
Chapter 23 Discerning the Body
Chapter 24 Sense-Perplexity and Divine Terroir
Chapter 25 Turning to Christ in Creation
Chapter 26 Conclusion

Part V A Rule of Life: "Let us go forth into the world..."
Chapter 27 Becoming a Spiritual Reservoir
Chapter 28 Moving, Feeling, Perceiving, Believing
Chapter 29 Praying in 3D
Chapter 30 Inhabited by Habits
Chapter 31 Postures of Perception

Chapter 32 Conclusion